ScrollKeeper

What is ScrollKeeper?

ScrollKeeper is a cataloging system for documentation on open systems. It manages documentation metadata (as specified by the Open Source Metadata Framework(OMF)) and provides a simple API to allow help browsers to find, sort, and search the document catalog. It will also be able to communicate with catalog servers on the Net to search for documents which are not on the local system.

Latest News

scrollkeeper-example2 0.1.1 Released (March 18, 2002)

Scrollkeeper-example2 0.1.1 is a package which illustrates how a package can be set up to install XML documentation and OMF files and register them with ScrollKeeper 0.3.x/0.4.x. It includes standard build files which can be copied into place without any modification for most packages, greatly minimizing the amount of effort required. It also includes a detailed document explaining step-by-step what must be done. Grab it from: http://sourceforge.net/projects/scrollkeeper.

ScrollKeeper 0.3.1 Released (Developers Only) (January 13, 2002)

ScrollKeeper 0.3.1, the second release in the 0.3.x development series, is now available for testers and developers. Grab it from here. Testers and developers should look over the TODO file, available in the tarball or in CVS, and the bug tracker.

Web Page Updates (January 13, 2002)

There have been several updates to the web pages recently. There is a new page explaining how to get ScrollKeeper from CVS. The draft specification for ScrollKeeper 0.3/0.4 has been added to the Documentation page. This is the draft from CVS which includes many of the updates from 0.2 to 0.4, although it is not 100% complete. And as was previously announced, a new section was added describing the various documentation browsers which use ScrollKeeper.

Browser List Available (January 10, 2002)

You can now find a list of documentation browsers which use ScrollKeeper, along with some screenshots and links.

ScrollKeeper 0.3.0 Released (Developers Only) (December 5, 2001)

ScrollKeeper 0.3.0, the first in the development series 0.3.x, was just released for testing. It has some very nice new features but is fairly bumpy and will need some work before we can promote it to the stable line. Developers are encouraged to help test it and squoosh bugs. Get it here.

ScrollKeeper: Open Source Document Management (November 28, 2001)

Kendall Clark wrote a very nice article about ScrollKeeper and how it fits into the *nix environment. It is a good read, whether you are new to ScrollKeeper or very familiar with it. You can read it here.

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